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Dylan Larkin makes statement in the All-Star Game, but what's next for the Detroit captain?

SUNRISE, Florida – The iconic moment from the 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend happened in the second game of the mini-tournament. 

Two-on-zero, Sidney Crosby to Alexander Ovechkin and back again, two of the top-10 players in NHL history combining for a goal against one of the greatest goalies in NHL history in Andrei Vasilevsky

You’ll see that highlight for years in future All-Star promos, and likely played when both are eventually inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

As much as the league tried to force something with Crosby and Ovechkin in the skills competition, the organic in-game moment delivered the clip the NHL was desperate to create. 

But Crosby and Ovechkin lost. While the NHL got its lasting moment, the bigger story impacting the remainder of the 2023 NHL season happened with the Atla

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